OPL 245: Tinubu’s Move To Grant Shell, Eni Companies Licence Which Buhari Rejected Over Corruption Will Throw Nigeria Into Colossal Loss – HEDA Warns A non-governmental human rights and development organisation, Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA Resource Centre), has raised the alarm that President Bola Tinubu’s move to grant multinational oil companies, Shell Nigeria Plc and Eni Oil mining licence will throw Nigeria into a colossal loss.
The Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA Resource Centre) has expressed surprise at the audacity of the sacked Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr. Betta Edu, to have directed the payment of public funds into the private account of a public servant. It supported President Bola Tinubu’s “decisive action in suspending all Social Investment Programmes administered by the National Social Investment Programme Agency”. HEDA described the decision as the right step in the fight against corruption.
President Bola Tinubu has directed that a thorough and comprehensive investigation be conducted on the alleged misappropriation of public funds by the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation to ascertain the accuracy and validity of the report.
The Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA Resource Centre), an anti-corruption group, has urged the Nigerian Government and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to conduct a thorough investigation into the actions of a former Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management, and Social Development, Sadiya Umar-Farouq. This request follows her failure to honour an invitation from the EFCC. Following the invitation, Umar-Farouq sent a letter to the anti-corruption agency, pleading for more time. She said she had some health challenges.
The French authorities have announced plans to return fresh $150m Sani Abacha loot to Nigeria. This was disclosed during the GFAR Action Series by the head of the French delegation to the 10th Session of State Parties to the United Nations Convention against Corruption (CoSP10), Julien Buissart, Deputy Chief, Division for Economic Standard and Anti-Corruption, Ministry of Foreign Affairs.